Mike & Co. — Yesterday when HRC released her detailed agenda for promoting and facilitating small businesses, she called the plan an outgrowth of HRC’s numerous conversations with small business owners over the past several months. From the beginning, HRC has said she wants to be the “Small Business President.” Recently citing her father’s experience …
Mike & Co., As Donald Trump continues the drawn-out process of providing details of his tax agenda, it has become abundantly clear that his plan stands to benefit the rich at the expense of lower- and middle-class Americans. Even more audacious — he appears to be running with three Achilles heels: the Trump loophole, whereby pass-through …
Mike & Co. — Today, HRC and Sen. Tim Kaine released new tax returns, HRC to supplement her previous release of 30 years of returns and Kaine to reveal his tax practices over the past decade. As you know, Trump continues to refuse to release any of his tax returns from the past 40 years, citing an IRS audit as …
Mike & Co., Donald Trump described his economic policy agenda — “Trumponomics” — in his Detroit Economic Club speech on Monday. His remarks, rife with falsehoods, inaccuracies, and deliberate misinterpretations of both policies and facts, are subject to rebuttal by HRC in the same city tomorrow, on a range of points laid out below. Trumponomics, as …
Mike & Co., This Tuesday, Donald Trump announced his intention to seek to improve the state of American infrastructure with an investment of over half a trillion dollars, financed through a bond program. The lack of details stands in contrast with HRC’s highly developed infrastructure agenda, which features an investment of $275 billion, including an infrastructure bank and a …
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Mike & Co., In the wake of the Democratic convention in Philadelphia last week, which earned the campaign a substantial bump in the polls as the general election phase formally begins, the first major economic policy report card — an assessment and comparison of the candidates’ proposals — has been published. Last Friday, Moody’s Analytics released a …
Mike & Co., Last night, Donald Trump accepted the GOP presidential nomination with a lengthy speech largely devoid of economic policy. Beyond paltry mentions of reducing and simplifying taxes for everyone, reducing the cost of excessive regulation, and tearing up every trade deal in sight, Trump presented no clear-cut or comprehensive plan or even a broad …
Mike & Co. — This past weekend in Orlando, the Democratic Platform Committee advanced a final draft of the party’s 2016 official platform, to be ratified at the upcoming Convention in Philadelphia. The platform has been described by many as about as progressive and precedent-setting in several areas as any in recent history. In this …
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